The Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL) at present includes
virtually the whole corpus of Celtic-Latin literature from the period
400-1200 A.D.

Location: The ACLL workstation is located on the fourth floor of the Joseph
Regenstein Library in RR4Cla, Room 470.

I. How to load the database: Obtain the CD-ROM (Call number: PA8118.I65A73) from Regenstein reserve (it is shelved as an oversized CD-ROM item). Insert the CD-ROM into the D: drive on the CETEDOC workstation. Open Program Manager and select the ACLL icon.

II. How to define a corpus: ACLL offers four fields by
which to define a corpus (i.e. limit a search). Each field is mutually exclusive;
enter information in only one field per search. To move from one level to
the next use the page down (PgDn) and page up (PgUp) keys. The
escape key (Esc) clears whatever field your cursor is in. To search
the entire database leave all four levels blank.

A. Auctor: You may define a corpus by author or authors
(authors' names must be separated by a comma with no intervening
spaces). Either type in each author's name exactly as it appears in
the appendix Auctores et Tituli Operum in ACLL-1 Adhibitorum
or press F2 (Browse) and then Enter to scroll through the author index.
Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate through the list.
Note: typing the initial letters of an author's name will take you
closer to the author's name in the list (e.g., typing pe will take
you directly to Petrus Abaelardus). Press Home to go to the top of the list
and End to go to the bottom. Highlight an author's name and press
Enter (to chose another author press F2 (Browse) and repeat; the
comma will be added automatically). When finished adding authors,
press Enter twice. To the far right you will see the number of
sententiae in your defined corpus.

B. Titulus operis: You may define a corpus by title or titles
of authors' works (titles must be separated by a comma with no
intervening spaces). Either type in the title exactly as it appears
in the appendix in the manual entitled Auctores et Tituli Operum in
ACLL-1 Adhibitorum or press F2 (Browse) and then Enter to scroll
through the title index. Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate through the list.
Note: typing the initial letters of an author's work will take you
closer to the title in the list. Press Home to go to the top of the
list and End to go to the bottom. Highlight a title and press Enter
(to chose another title press F2 (Browse) and repeat; the comma will
be added automatically). When finished adding titles press Enter
twice. To the far right you will see the number of sententiae in
your defined corpus.

C. L&S Numbers: You may also define a corpus by title using one or
several L&S numbers from the work of Michael Lapidge and Richard Sharpe,
A Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature 400-1200 (Dublin: Royal
Irish Academy, 1985). In the L&S Box type numbers separated by commas.
Press Enter twice. To the far right you will see the number of
sententiae in your defined corpus.

D. Aetas: You may define a corpus by era. The texts have been roughly divided into those from the patristic era, designated by
Aetas patristica, and those from the medieval era, Aetas mediaevalis.
The line between patristic and medieval is drawn somewhere in about the
eighth century, at whatever seems to be the most significant time-division
for the category of texts in question. You may enter these directly or press
F2 (Browse) and then Enter as above. Press Enter twice. To the far right
you will see the number of sententiae in your defined corpus.

III. Searching a corpus: After having defined a corpus, move your cursor
to the Formae (or search) box. Type in a word and press Enter. The
number to the far right of the search box indicates the number of
sentences in which the word occurs in the entire database. The
number at the bottom of the screen indicates the number of sentences
in which the word occurs in your defined corpus. Truncated and
boolean searches are possible. To truncate a word use an asterisk
(*) (e.g., spoli* will retrieve all words beginning with the letters
spoli; *trix will retrieve all words ending with the letters trix;
an asterisk may be placed in the middle of a word as well). A
question mark (?) stands for any single letter (e.g., Io?is will
retrieve both Iobis and Iouis). To find out the forms to be searched
before activating a search press F4 (List). You will see all words
in the entire database conforming to your entry. At this time you
may eliminate certain words from your search. To do this remove the
check mark next to unwanted words by pressing the space bar as
you scroll through the list with the up and down arrow keys.
Then press Enter to set these modifications. Do not forget that
Latin is a highly inflected language. Furthermore, orthographical
variations may affect the accuracy of your search (e.g., qu may appear
as c, ae as merely e, etc.).

The following Boolean operators are also available for searching:

comma (,) = "or" (e.g., ecclesia,aecclesia,eclesia
will retrieve instances of all three words).

forward slash (/) = proximity
in any order (e.g., romana/2 ecclesia will retrieve instances of romana
and ecclesia within a single sentence, in this case, with no more than
two words intervening).

percent sign (%) = proximity
in a particular order (e.g., romana% ecclesia will retrieve all instances
of Romana and ecclesia in the given order within a single sentence).

IV. Displaying results: To display results press F3 (Display). You may
scroll through the results sententia by sententia by using the PgDn
and PgUp keys. Should you wish to see a sententia in full context,
place the cursor on the desired sententia and press Enter. The
escape key (Esc) will take you back to the list of occurrences.
ACLL-1 provides editorial and bibliographic information for
titles of works. To gain access to this information press F6
(Memento) with the cursor on a particular sententia. To return to
the list of occurrences press Esc. Pressing Esc again will take you
out of Display mode back to the Search screen.

V.How to download and print results:
Insert a diskette into drive A: and press F5 (Output)
while in Display mode. You will be asked a series of questions (the arrow keys
move you through the questions; space bar toggles between possible
answers). Under "Text Format" be sure to save your results in ASCII.
Specify a path and give the results a file name (e.g., a:\ecclesia). Press Enter.
To print, press
F5 (Output) while in display mode and use the space bar to toggle the Write
To option so that it displays Printer. Press Enter.

VI. How to exit the database: F7 (Exit) will take you out of the database
to the set-up screen.

For more help use the Help Function available on screen (F1), refer
to the manual, or contact
Catherine Mardikes, ETS Coordinator and Bibliographer for Classics and the Ancient Near East,
JRL 471, 708-2783, c-mardikes@uchicago.edu.